NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 9, 14 March 1866, Page 3

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

LEADING LIGHTS AND BEACONS FOE NEWCASTLE. In order to increase the facilities for navigating Newcastle harbor, leading lights for entering, and also leading lights for takiug the north, channel, will be exhibited on and after Tuesday, the Ist of May, 1866. The two fairway lights for entering (red and bright) will be shown from beacons 228 feet apart, in a S.W. £ S., and N.E. $ N. direction, erected on a clear space of ground on the hill at the back of the town, between the Wesleyan aud Catholic churches. Those for taking the north channel, also red and bright, will be shown from beacons erected on the breakwater in the vicinity of the old Bull beacons, at a distance of a hundred feet apart, in a W. by N. and E. by S. direction. In both cases, when the lights are in line, the bright will be the uppermost, and the red the lowermost, one of the two. In the day time, however, this order of color will be reversed, as it is intended to paint the upper beacons red and the lower ones white. The lower or north-eastern of the two obelisks at present used for the leading mark in, situated ou Shepherd's Hill, will be removed, so likewise will be the remnant of the Bull beacons on the breakwater. The exhibition of these leading lights will not necessitate different sailing directions to those already published, any more than the lights aud new beacons being substituted for the obelisks and beacons which are at present in use. In euteriug the Port of Newcastle at night great caution will be necessary, in consequence of the strength of the tide, aud due allowance will have to be made for ebb or flow, on sighting the north channel lights, and about to alter course from S.W. £ S. with the fairway lights iu oue, to W. by N., the direction which a vessel will have to steer to keep the north channel lights in Hue, to gain an anchorage in the north harbor. FRANCIS IIIXSON, Superintendent of Pilots, &c, N. S. Wales. Sydney, 10th February, 1866.